sky-kedge0749

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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> Here we go again with that troubling word at HN: “obvious.” Best to strike that from your vocabulary. My fault for sloppy wording. I was supposing for the sake of the hypothetical that the police made it obvious to you personally that
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> Anarchism (and any fully decentralized protocol) "works" for small N because the average node can keep all the other nodes of the society in memory. If you need something, you know exactly whom to ask. And if you do something
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
This is a pretty weird article given how much party politics changed in the 1970s. Membership between the two parties shuffled in response to civil rights and other legislation in the 1960s. The reconstituted Republican party invented new e
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
This is technically true, however, in many cases the government has already waived immunity through past legislation, or a court has already found that immunity doesn't apply to particular cases due to for example constitutional reason
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm sorry that all happened to you, that sounds really bad. I'm not doubting your experience. However I think it's important for Americans in particular to maintain the distinction between "the Constitution applies and b
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer but I've studied criminal law, am generally anti-cop and really sympathize with all the "don't talk to cops" videos and pamphlets out there. I understand that mens rea or premeditation can be argued
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
That's not true, see: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone . In fact "the Constitution doesn't apply at the borders" is what border cops want people to think, so repeating it
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
In the U.S. the law varies, see: https://bikeleague.org/sites/default/files/SidewalkRiding_8_... . A checkmark in the "is it legal?" box isn't the whole story though since, I assume, cyclists al
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
To be clear this isn't a competition. The reason cyclists ride on the sidewalk is because they don't have their own space and don't feel safe on the roads. You yourself just said you've had many near-fatal accidents over
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I hear you, but my actual experience is that car danger is avoidable. I can, if necessary, stand at a crosswalk and wait as long as necessary for the road to clear, or walk behind an idling car if I think it might accelerate into me, or kee
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The 2nd amendment as supporting collective rather than individual gun ownership is the traditional interpretation. The more maximal interpretation as supporting individual gun ownership is a recent thing. The ACLU has chosen not to defend t
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
A big problem is that most people don't know how to handle that kind of freedom. The social world most people exist in won't accept it. I don't know your life but I think a lot of people who suggest things like your [4] imagi
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, not the American Free Speech Union. It's consistent with their mission to decide to for example defend the right for trans people to get appropriate medical care, and decide not to defend
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Cyclists are much scarier to me as a pedestrian than cars are. Cars can be erratic but they stay on the road and, at worst, I can wait them out or otherwise almost always avoid them. On the other hand I've had cyclists zoom around me f
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I often walk next to a bike lane that has some freestanding posts separating it from road parking and then a road. Cars sometimes knock the safety posts into the bike lane causing a serious hazard to cyclists. I'll move fallen posts ou
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
People across the political spectrum got upset at the government. I remember being swept up at the time in the general nerd rage against the NSA. I particularly remember watching left-wing media about it from creators that were, around that
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The need for school lunches is one lunch per child per day. Is there some more specific local need that the existing program is interfering with, like buying food from local producers or providing culturally appropriate meals? Or are you ju
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
In an ideal world voters would rationally consider leaks, blame would be allocated appropriately, and the importance of the whole situation would be weighed against other concerns. In the real world voters are at the mercy of cognitive and
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Capitalism usually means a small owning class and a large working class, which is the hierarchy. It doesn't actually require a pyramid scheme system of recruitment, you could just have an enforcer class that beats the workers into hope
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I don't know. If a ton of news came out about shady stuff happening at the Coca-Cola company, I'd want to know if it was all coming from corporate espionage paid for by Pepsi. We assume an impartial news organization will investig
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Not GP, but here's an answer to your question in the form of a jigsaw puzzle: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739198964/crimethinc-pyramid-of...
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The federal program reimburses local schools who are able to adapt to local circumstances. https://www.fns.usda.gov/disaster/pandemic/cn-2021-22-waiver... is a long list of associated waivers allowing local flexib
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
In this case we're talking about a program that directly feeds children who are, I hope we agree, the victims of and in no way responsible for any negligence due to "poor people [who] can't be bothered to prepare food."
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
This is a pretty restricted idea of what art is and can be. Creating art has been a human impulse probably since the beginning of our species, painting on cave walls, adding flourishes to pottery, tattooing and other body modification. Toda
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> If people are still getting caught in this trap, though, I'd be interested to see more? (And potentially write more on why it's not a good application of EA thinking.) A big problem for me is that the various huge income diff